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CHERAMCEOA LEUCOSTERNUM, GouU. 

 WMte-breasted Swallo-w. 

 GouU, Eandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 57, p. 115. J2LIILI. ^^■ 



Mr. Edward Lord Ramsay informs me that during several years 

 residence on Wattagoona Station, near Louth, in the interior of 

 New South Wales, he found many nests of this species. In 

 favourable situations they breed in small communities, boring a 

 tunnel from eight inches to two feet in length in the loose loamy 

 soil of the bank of a dry creek or dam, at the extremity of which 

 a chamber is hollowed out, and on the bottom a small saucer-shaped 

 nest is formed of a thick layer of dead " Mulga " leaves (Acacia 

 aneura). In a number of nests examined five eggs was the usual 

 number laid for a sitting, in one instance only did he find a nest 

 containing six. The eggs are pure white and invariably true 

 ovoids in form. The set of six referred to, taken on the 28th Sep- 

 tember, 1887, measure as follows : — length (A) 068 x 0-5 inch ; 

 (B) 0-7 X 0-5 inch ; (C) 0-68 x 0-5 inch ; (D) 0-69 x 0-5 inch ; (E) 

 0-7 X 049 inch ; (F) 0-68 x 0-51 inch. 



Another set of four taken by Mr. Ramsay on the same date, 

 measure (A) 0-67 x 0-5 inch ; (B) 0-67 x 048 inch ; (C) 0-67 x 

 0-48 inch ; (U) 0-67 x 049 inch. 



Hob. New South Wales, Interior, South Australia, West and 

 South-west Australia. {Ramsay.) 



ALCYONE DIEMENENSIS, Gould. 

 Tasmanian Kingflslier. 

 Gould Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 70, p. 141. 



Mr. Atkinson of Tasmania, has kindly forwarded the eggs of 

 this species for description with the accompanying data : 



"The eggs of Alcyone diemenensis, were taken on the 11th of 

 January, 1890, by TVIr. M. Ford, who lives near me, from a hole 

 in the bank of Seabrook Creek in this neighbourhood ; I have 

 measured the hole, finding it including the chamber at the end 



